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KANSAS CITY — This is one for the vault, but only if the plan is to put the tape of Sunday's Bills-Chiefs game in said vault, lock it up, and throw away the key.

"I don't see any ugly in victory; all victories are pretty to me," Bills interim head coach Perry Fewell said with a wide smile following Buffalo's inartistic 16-10 triumph over hapless Kansas City.

Beauty is clearly in the eye of the beholding winning coach, because this game was uglier than the clothes pro golfers wore in the 1970s.

There was nothing stylish, nor relevant, about the game, which led Fox studio analyst Terry Bradshaw to preface his description of the game's few highlights with "If anybody cares."

Buffalo quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick passed for 86 yards, threw an interception and lost a fumble, yet his 65.8 passer rating towered above his counterpart, Matt Cassel, who threw four interceptions including two in the final 2:11, which helped doom his club. The teams combined to go 11 of 34 on third- and fourth-down conversions, had seven turnovers, and they produced one touchdown in six trips into the red zone (that by Terrell Owens in the first quarter).

When one of the best plays of the day is a 73-yard punt (that by Buffalo's Brian Moorman), one of the most important plays was a dropped pass (that by Kansas City's Chris Chambers, which may have cost the Chiefs the game), and those plays were made in front of about 30,000 empty seats in a stadium that once was the envy of many in the NFL for its passionate support of the Chiefs, you know it's not a good day for the NFL.

Not that the victory-starved Bills cared.

"No sir," linebacker Bryan Scott said when asked if ugly matters when you win. "It's so hard to get wins in this league that whenever you get it done you cherish that. You keep it in perspective, learn from the negatives, accept the positives and keep it moving."

On that point, Scott cannot be debated because at the end of the reasonably mild Midwest afternoon, it was a better day for the Bills (5-8) than it was the Chiefs (3-10).

"When you get the win it makes it feel a whole lot better," said wide receiver Lee Evans, who was held to one catch for 11 yards as the Buffalo passing game was non-existent thanks to a game plan that featured the extended use of both Fred Jackson (99 yards) and Marshawn Lynch (84 yards).

The Bills strategists took one look at Kansas City's weak defense and surmised that running the ball was the best way to attack the Chiefs.

"We went into this game saying we wanted to run the ball and we did that," said offensive coordinator Alex Van Pelt.

In the first quarter, Fitzpatrick set the Chiefs up at the Buffalo 9 when he fumbled after being sacked by Mike Vrabel with ex-Bill Ron Edwards making the recovery. However, Kansas City didn't even score as defensive end Aaron Schobel blew up Cassel on a fourth-and-goal naked bootleg from the 1.

Lynch then broke a 47-yard run, helped by a key block from Fitzpatrick, and the Bills capped a 92-yard drive when Owens made a 9-yard TD reception, which proved to be their lone TD against a KC defense that has allowed the third-most points in the NFL.

The Chiefs cut the deficit to 7-3 with a 74-yard drive to Ryan Succop's 21-yard field goal and then regained possession at the Bills 49 when tight Shawn Nelson lost a fumble. Again, the inept Chiefs whiffed and wound up punting, and Buffalo turned around and marched 57 yards to Rian Lindell's first field goal for a 10-3 halftime lead.

Early in the third the Bills had a chance to extend their advantage when Terrence McGee picked off Cassel at the KC 24, but Fitzpatrick reciprocated with a horribly thrown interception in the end zone.

Later in the third, Lindell kicked a 24-yard field goal after the Bills failed to punch it into the end zone, and on the first play after the kickoff, Jamaal Charles broke a 76-yard touchdown run to get the Chiefs back into the game.

"We had a blitz on the play and that's why he was able to run up the middle," said McGee of a call that Fewell admitted he shouldn't have made.

In the fourth, Lindell made a 36-yard field goal after Paul Posluszny's interception, and the Buffalo defense then made two game-saving stops.

One on the Chambers dropped pass and another on a broken-up Hail Mary.

"It was good for our defense to get those stops," said Posluszny. "We want to be on the field at the end of games to make the plays to finish games out. We had the opportunity to do it and we did it."